Word: patch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Salyut space laboratory last week that there were hints in Moscow that the manned flight might last a month or more. Inside Salyut's large cabin, the three cosmonauts were running tests to determine the physical effects of weightlessness on man, tending a small on-board vegetable patch in which cabbages and onions were growing, and comparing their observations of earth with those being made from two planes flying at much lower altitudes directly below them. Not forgetting their other obligations, the cosmonauts also took time to radio their approval of "the wise foreign and domestic policy...
...common: even Veriety admits that. But Shakespeare, like Burrows, occasionally worked as a play doctor, called in to liven up a closing act that didn't work, to throw in a few good lines here and there. Somebody, nobody knows quite who, once called him in to patch up a dreadful little play about an exiled Greek prince, and the result is now known as The Tragedy of Pericles, Prince of Tyre...
...Penn meet, the Crimson was forced to compete without 150-pound regular Dean Sheppard who suffered an injured shoulder against Yale on Wednesday. With this vacancy. Harvard coach John Lee was forced to move wrestlers up a weight class to patch up his lineup. "The changes made the match closer than what I had bargained for." Lee said later...
...Houston, engineers feverishly tried to solve the problem by experimenting with a duplicate of the troublesome docking mechanism. As minutes dragged by without any noticeable progress, the technical drama seemed faintly reminiscent of the struggle to patch up Apollo 13 for its limping return to earth last April. This time the astronauts themselves were not in any danger-they could orbit the moon in Kitty Hawk and return safely-but it was clear that without a functioning docking apparatus, Antares was virtually useless, and there could be no lunar landing...
Pajama Game. Within 36 hours of Nixon's request, both houses had zipped through measures containing wage boosts. But even as the legislators hurriedly held a hectic House-Senate conference on Capitol Hill to patch up differences in the bills passed by each house, early-bird pickets were appearing only a few blocks away at Washington's Union Station, the final House vote interrupted an impassioned if irrelevant time-filling defense of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by Lawrence Hogan, a Maryland Republican. The act was not signed by the President until two hours after...